Raise your glasses…Happy 2018!

First things first: wishing you all a happy, healthy, joyful New Year! A year filled with joy and hope, a year plenty of dreams and projects, new horizons to discover, old and new friendships to cherish…let’s raise our glass to that!

Speaking of raising glasses, at Antwerp city brewery ‘De Koninck’ they take that quite literally!

You can discover the history of this working and iconic Antwerp Brewery through an interactive and unique tour. Without spoiling to much of the fun in case you have a visit planned soon, expect to be immersed into the world of hops and malt, make a fun delivery drive through Antwerp’s city center and get some first hand juicy stories from the brewery owners…oh and there’s plenty of beers to taste too of course!

stop, the hand shows you the way to beer heavenTour Antwerp city brewery

Jean Blaute and Ray Cokes, beer lovers and among other things famous for the fantastic Tournée Générale tv series

Apart from the beer the brewery site houses some great food concepts, stores, restaurants and bars that make any foodie drool: from recently Michelin-rewarded ‘The Butcher’s Son’ to Cheesemonger-shop by Van Tricht, Jitsk chocolatier and many more fun projects and concepts.

‘Tastemakers’ and the brewery teamed up and an urban beekeeper takes care of the beehives installed in a beertank on the parking lot… that’s around 160000 very ‘beezy’ workers producing some runny yummy honey!

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15 thoughts on “Raise your glasses…Happy 2018!”

Spooky.
I’ve never uttered the word ‘Antwerp’ in my life. Until this evening, two hours ago. A friend met a man last night in London at a party. They clicked. He lives in Antwerp!
I click on your post – you talk of Antwerp!!!!
It’s a sign. I shall follow your posts 🥂

Dear Ingrid, I wish you and your family and happy and healthy 2018 as well. Love your New Years Eve post, hope you had a great time celebrating “Sylvester” as we say in German. Waving from the Allgäu, enjoying my last days in Germany. “Talk” to you soon!

Many thanks Kathrin and of course to you and your loved ones wishing a year of good health and joy, many bright stars and few clouds✨😘 learned something new when we were in Aachen…shipowners wishing us ein guten Rutsch, loved that, so hope your Rutsch together with family and friends was a great one and safe flight back😘

Ingrid, my wife and lived in in Eindhoven for three years in 1997-2000. We traveled quite a bit and loved Belgium and The Netherlands. You posts bring back warm memory’s of our time in Europe. After Eindhoven, we lived in China for a number of years. Pls continue to enchant me with your travels!

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Hi, I'm Ingrid, thanks for stopping by! I live in Aartselaar, a small town south of Antwerp, Belgium, together with my husband, son and cat Wiskie. Being a chronic backpain patient since I was a young child and still coping with pain every day makes one thing very clear: it may limit and define my daily life and routines, but it sure doesn't define ME! Life is still sweet and on the off days, well there is love, friends, nature, dreams and chocolate x

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This blog is not merely a travel blog or a place to find recipes or lifestyle topics, you will find a bit of all these things, hence the inspiration for the title…A little insight in what inspires me, what catches my eye or what makes me smile! The little and sometimes bigger things that fill my heart with joy and head with dreams! Welcome and hope you enjoy!